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Albert and Bear
The seal of Albert the Bear.
Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.
* Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich ii Chapter iv: Albert the Bear
Otto's son, Albert the Bear, became, with the help of his mother's inheritance, the first Ascanian duke of Saxony in 1139.
In 1237 and 1244 two towns, Cölln and Berlin were founded during the rule of Otto and Johann, grandsons of Margrave Albert the Bear, ( later they were united into one city, Berlin ).
As the Welf duke Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to acknowledge the new king, Conrad III deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.
In Kruszwica on 6 January 1148 Judith married Otto, eldest son of Albert the Bear, the first Margrave of Brandenburg.
* June 11 Albert I of Brandenburg, also called, The Bear ( Ger: Albrecht der Bär ), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first Margrave.
As Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to do the same, Conrad deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.
King Conrad III had dispossessed Henry the Proud, who had been his rival for the crown in 1138, of his duchies in 1138 and 1139, handing Saxony to Albert the Bear and Bavaria to Leopold of Austria.
Albert Finney won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.
For further one and a half centuries, the lands east of the Elbe defied German control, until in 1134 Emperor Lothair of Supplinburg bestowed the Northern March to the Ascanian count Albert the Bear.
Saxony, which he had attempted to hold but was not officially invested with, was given to Albert the Bear, son of the younger daughter of Magnus, the last Billung duke.
Albert the Bear is believed to have ordered the construction of a castle on the banks of the Havel.
In the early 12th century the area then under the rule of Albert the Bear was settled with peasants descending from the Low Countries.
* 1134: After the Wendish Crusade, the German magnate Albert the Bear was granted the Northern March by the Holy Roman Emperor Lothar II.
* 1150: Albert the Bear formally inherited parts of Brandenburg from its last Wendish prince, Pribislav.
* After 1200: Under the grandsons of Albert the Bear, Otto and Johann, two towns, Cölln in 1237 and Berlin in 1244, were founded on the banks of the river Spree.
It received market rights by the first Brandenburg margrave Albert the Bear in 1160 and quickly became an important member of the Hanseatic League.
The Ascanian Albert the Bear becomes new Duke of Saxony.
* 1141: Albert the Bear resigns.
The chief of the House of Ascania, Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg, son of Albert the Bear, a maternal cousin of Henry the Lion, provided his sixth brother Bernard, Count of Anhalt, from then on Bernard III, Duke of Saxony, with the from then on so-called younger Duchy of Saxony ( 1180 1296 ), a radically belittled territory consisting of three unconnected territories along the river Elbe, from north west to south east, ( 1 ) Hadeln around Otterndorf, ( 2 ) around Lauenburg upon Elbe and ( 3 ) around Wittenberg upon Elbe.
In 1134, in the wake of a German crusade against the Wends, the German magnate Albert the Bear was granted the Northern March by the Holy Roman Emperor Lothar II.

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